After the Bombs. A Confederation?
"Air strikes on Gaza are not a solution. More Palestinian deaths are what Hamas needs to feed its own radicalism," states the Czech Republic Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel von Scharzenberg in Giancarlo Bosetti’s interview. How is this war going to change the relationships between Israelis and Palestinians? Political philosopher Seyla Benhabib writes: “Suppose there was a confederation in Israel-Palestine. This confederation could become the kernel of a Middle Eastern Union of Peoples, in which Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and many other states would conjoin together much along the model of the European Union”.